Heritage Foundation president delays release of new book after Project 2025 backlash

The president of the Heritage Foundation has delayed the release of his new book until after the election following backlash against the conservative think tank for its Project 2025 initiative.

Republican senator and vice presidential nominee JD Vance has written the foreword to Dawn’s Early Light by Heritage Foundation president, Kevin Roberts.

“There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country,” Roberts told RealClearPolitics. “That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election.”

Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, have linked Project 2025 to the Trump campaign, something that was made easier when Vance joined the Republican ticket, due to his direct connection to the think tank.

“In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Vance wrote in the book’s foreword, obtained by the New Republic. The book was previously set to be released next month.

Earlier this week, the Harris campaign sent out a press release that connected Vance to Project 2025. The email said the think tank and Trump were working together to “turn American democracy into a billionaire-backed dictatorship.”

Roberts told Real Clear Politics that he doesn’t see the delay as a retreat and that conservatives will focus on taking the fight to the Harris campaign in the coming months.

“The Democrat establishment is more radical than ever, and Kamala Harris promises to advance their destructive agenda of high inflation and open borders for four more years,” he told the outlet. “We can’t let that happen.”

“In the coming weeks, conservatives are fully